"One of Kshama Sawant's earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she 'otherwise loved very much' — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid.
The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl's name. He responded that his granddaughter 'talked too much.'
Now 50, and an elected official in a city far from India, Sawant has proposed an ordinance to add caste to Seattle's anti-discrimination laws. If her fellow council members approve it Tuesday, Seattle will become the first city in the United States to specifically outlaw caste discrimination."
~ Deepa Bharath
"Seattle City Council considers historic law barring caste discrimination"
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